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Do they really maintain a useful charge for many months of storage untouched in a freezing cold trunk?
Asking for a friend whose '04 with a six month old East-Penn battery almost didn't start tonight, despite the temperature being well above 0°F. (Yes, he knows to check the alternator output under load. No, he hasn't done it yet because he can't find his damn Fluke 77 at the moment.)
I'm not at all familiar with those, but I work with a Duracell alumnus who tells me that all the marketing crap you hear about Li-ion batteries is pretty much true - they hold a very high percentage of charge for a long time. I have a Li-ion hedge trimmer that held an indicated full charge after sitting idle from October until April. If the numbers on that jumper pack are real, I will buy one to replace my Lead-acid one.
Do they really maintain a useful charge for many months of storage untouched in a freezing cold trunk?
Asking for a friend whose '04 with a six month old East-Penn battery almost didn't start tonight, despite the temperature being well above 0°F. (Yes, he knows to check the alternator output under load. No, he hasn't done it yet because he can't find his damn Fluke 77 at the moment.)
I have a similar that I keep in my truck. Use it about 3-4 times a year for whatever needs a quick jump. Typically 4-6 months between uses. I recharge it after using. Never failed me but I've only had it about 18 months.
Bought it on Amazon Prime. I'll try and update with a link when I get home later.
I don't care about that as much. I need to know how deep of holes to ream.
Originally Posted by hi_im_sean
Id bet the limitation will be in the extrusion and not the top hat.
Drill thru to the cross hole. You could mill the square section of the fuel rail shorter before the top of the injector sticks into the cross hole, especially if you're welding brackets and don't need the square section for bolt holes.
Remove the top hat things if you want the rail as low as possible....................
I've been looking all over the place for one of my 1TB external hard drives for days. Turned my office upside-down, searched every spot in the house I could think of, dug all through my car... Finally found it this morning in a drawer in the kitchen. Under what circumstances did I think that the drawer next to the silverware was an appropriate spot to put a hard drive?
I have a similar that I keep in my truck. Use it about 3-4 times a year for whatever needs a quick jump. Typically 4-6 months between uses. I recharge it after using. Never failed me but I've only had it about 18 months.
Does it still perform well after having been left in freezing weather for several months?
If so, I'm gonna pick one up. Temps are getting down into the 0°-10°F range (supposed to be -15° on Sunday) and it's getting really hard to start in the evening after work. On the plus side, I found the Fluke this evening.
Hard to believe that something that tiny and light can deliver enough juice to turn an engine...
Fun fact: suction-cup windshield mounts don't work at all at 9°F.
I've been looking all over the place for one of my 1TB external hard drives for days. Turned my office upside-down, searched every spot in the house I could think of, dug all through my car... Finally found it this morning in a drawer in the kitchen. Under what circumstances did I think that the drawer next to the silverware was an appropriate spot to put a hard drive?
It's entirely possible. I still haven't found the cable for it (9 pin USB3 micro-B) of which I only own one. It's backwards-compatible with USB2 cables, but... USB3.
Ah, well... The replacement OptiPlex 7040 should be here tomorrow, and the ASUS touchscreen arrived today, so we'll see how hard its going to be to un-**** myself from yesterday's fiasco.
Oh, and progress:
This should be the last custom part I need to have fabbed to make it all go together:
Ordered 16 of them, should be here in about a week.
This was right in front of my driveway today. I pulled the truck out of the road, and the merc out of the ditch. It is a **** show. Road is solid ice. I drove up through the field instead of the road.
Does it still perform well after having been left in freezing weather for several months?
Used it on a woman's car this past weekend. It hadn't been charged in 4 months. Not sure it'd turn over a diesel pickup but worked fine on the Accord the woman had.
I just looked for the highest power rating at the time.
In other news, I saved big and scored an ACDELCO map sensor replacement on amazon. What's weird is when I checked a while ago it was more expensive than rock auto. Now it's $60 less on amazon, Order Sent!
Being a firefighter in the winter is always amusing. People are at peak stupidity when it is cold, or really anytime the weather is bad. My "house" is pretty in the winter: Also, my dog likes snow:
How well insulated is your old church? Hard to keep heated in the winter?
For ****'s sake... WGN just interrupted a rerun of Family Guy to tell me that some bunch of dudes hit a little round rubber disc into a net with a stick while wearing ice skates more times than some other bunch of dudes, and now every single living human in Chicago is out in the streets shouting, honking their horns, playing "Chelsea Dagger" by The Fratellis as loud as possible, etc., and it's driving me batshit crazy as I sit here in my hotel room trying to think of some new way to **** with 92verty's head.
And I think I just heard gunfire.
Irony (or is it just coincidence? **** you, Alanis Morissette):
Six and a half years after this post, I'm the director of engineering at WGN, and responsible for making sure that the aforementioned news of a bunch of dudes hitting a little round rubber disc into a net with a stick more times than some other bunch of dudes is nationally televised.
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